Torvalds gets tough on kernel coders, Nov 11, 2005

Linus Torvalds has threatened that if developers add 'last-minute things' to the next version of the Linux kernel he will 'refuse to merge, and laugh in their faces derisively'

2.6.14-git14 has been released today.
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The Catholic Church has acknowledged that the Internet is an opportunity too important for all humanity to be missed. However, to the best of my knowledge, the Church has not yet realized (at least officially) that Her concerns and recommendations on social communications should be reflected in the software, file formats, and computer protocols She uses.

The Mozilla Foundation's popular open-source browser, Firefox, turned one year old yesterday. An executive at Mozilla stated, that demand for the Firefox browser had completely out-stripped the company s expectations.

A certified NoMachine NX Client will be included in the first German edition of the Xandros Desktop OS, which will debut on November 15 at the Frankfurt LinuxWorld Conference and Expo.

The French tax agency claims that upgrading its 80,000 desktops to Office XP would cost €29.5m, but switching to OpenOffice.org only €200,000

Sleepycat is the company behind Berkeley DB. According to the company's Web site, Berkeley DB is the most widely used open source developer database in the world. Profitable since it started in 1996, Sleepycat has its software deployed in mission-critical applications globally.

So Munich is receiving all the press about their careful and detailed migration to Linux on the desktop and here comes one of the poorest region in Europe showing that this can be simply done during a weekend.

2.6.14.2 has been released today.
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